Animals Make Us Human.

I Think Sometimes Parents And Teachers Fail To Stretch Kids. My Mother Had A Very Good Sense Of How To Stretch Me Just Slightly Outside My Comfort Zone.

Whereas An Elephant That Was Scared To Death That Diesel Powered Equipment, Equipment That Ran On A Gas Engine, Was Just Fine. Because Somebody Had Attacked It With Construction Equipment. But If It Had A Diesel Engine, It Was Bad.

Cats Are Great With Clicker Training. There's A Great Video You Can Get Called "clicker Magic". There's A Scene In That Video Where A Cat Is Trained To Go Through A Mini Dog Agility Course - It's All Done With Food Motivation And Clicker Training. You Can Train Them To Do All Sorts Of Thing.

I Am Much Less Autistic Now, Compared To When I Was Young. I Remember Some Behaviors Like Picking Carpet Fuzz And Watching Spinning Plates For Hours. I Didn't Want To Be Touched. I Couldn't Shut Out Background Noise. I Didn't Talk Until I Was About 4 Years Old. I Screamed. I Hummed. But As I Grew Up, I Improved.

My Grandfather Was An Engineer Who Invented The Automatic Pilot For Airplanes.